Re:Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript
by rustler on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:46AM
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> fundamentally recursion is syntactical sugar over loops and stacks, as assembly can show you.
That's one possible implementation of recursion on commodity hardware. Recursion itself is a mathematical method for defining a function which may not even be computable, or may be computable using other primitives.
That's one possible implementation of recursion on commodity hardware. Recursion itself is a mathematical method for defining a function which may not even be computable, or may be computable using other primitives.